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She ure out how to pull down that ladder so she could check out the storage space up over the ceiling

She got back in the kitchen in tiel-hair pasta atop the onions and olive oil, stir it all up and add fresh Parmesan cheese

It smelled heavenly

He watched her put her phone on the counter "Heath again?"

No reason to bore hi out plates and refilling their glasses, she set the table And even that, the sis instead of one, filled her with e her by surprise, Cannon stroked her backside, murmured, "Irresistible," then stepped around her to load up the plates "What are you thinking about so seriously?"

Still on high alert from that casual caress and incredible compliment, she smiled at him "I haven’t done this since Idoith soht"

He put diced toood cook?"

"Country cooking" Very different fro he fixed was a one-pothis specialty"

A gentleht you to cook?"

"Yes" Yvette realized that having sonant as the cozy dinners together "Stew, soup, sauerkraut and ribs, harinned "All stuff you don’t eat"

"All stuff I love" He sat across froed hers in "Mo early in life just so she couldn’t fattenas she’d known Cannon, he’d been a speci that"

He smiled with her "Bean soup and ham with corn bread was one of my favorites I could finish off half the corn bread all on my own Rissy would have a fit when she wanted seconds and it was gone"

"When do she and her roo Yvette shake her head

"What, you thought I wasn’t paying attention? I realize you wanted to be here, so here you are But you did have options"

"True enough" He watched her take a bite, then moan with pleasure His eyes darkened "Glad you like it"

"It’s a"

As casually as he’d stroked her rear, he said, "You’ll like o still--only that didn’t slow Cannon down at all